Re: CPU results on Freescale i.MX

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Christopher Berardi
<cberardi%natoufa.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:23:20PM +0000, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
>> Maybe use whetstone? Or one of the various other benchmark packages
>> that give a good overall number.
>
> Except that the I still don't know which ARM port I would use for that system,
> so I still have the original Ubuntu on it. And Ubuntu doesn't have whetstone,
> or dhrystone, or really any good benchmark software (that I'm aware of).
>
> I did run 'openssl speed' on it and the laptop (both running Ubuntu). The
> results seem to indicate that the laptop is an order of magnitude faster and
> more powerful than the ARM system. Although, considering one is meant for
> more-or-less embedded applications and has significantly less RAM, I don't
> think it is _that_ fair of a comparison. Now, if I had an ATOM to compare it
> against, that would be a more indicative comparison.
Google armcortexa8vsintelatomarchitecturalandbe
The paper is about OMAP3 (Cortex-A8) vs ATOM and there are links to
benchmark software.
Lwazi